Étienne-Maurice Falconet is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: French sculptor and author, 1716-1791. The record places the birth in Paris and the death in Paris. Getty classifies the person under these roles: sculptor, author, director (administrator), director of the Sèvres factory, 1757-1766, designer, writer, draftsman, art theorist. The nationality terms attached to the record are French Parisian. The record carries 15 forms of the name and the identifier 500115285. In this atlas the person is linked as the creator of Bronze Horseman.
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Falconet, Etienne-Maurice (French sculptor and author, 1716-1791)
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Born: Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)
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Falconet, Etienne-Maurice (French sculptor and author, 1716-1791)
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In Group: Baroque and Rococo Sculptors, Lead
was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor
In Group: Neoclassical Sculptors, Lead
was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor
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Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
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